Thursday, May 19, 2011

A Tale of 2 Catholic Kansas Governors

3 Years ago the governor of Kansas was Kathleen Sebelius. While claiming to be Catholic she never met a pro-life law that she wouldn't veto. She was in bed with the abortion industry. Planned Parenthood not only endorsed her, they held fundraisers for her. She was especially a good buddy of the late term abortionist George Tiller. Because of her pro-abortion stance she was told be her Archbishop, Joseph Naumann, that as long as she was pro-abort she should no longer take communion. In 2009 Cardinal Burke said that Sebelius should not approach the altar for Communion in the United States. He explained why by pointing out that "after pastoral admonition, she obstinately persists in serious sin"

Now move forward to 2011. Once again Kansas has a Catholic governor. This time it is Sam Brownback. However that is where the similarities end. Brownback has shown the difference between someone who claims to be Catholic & a Catholic who upholds Catholic teacing on the Life issues. As you can see from this article, Planned Parenthood may be longing for, what was for them, the good old days. For the unborn, the opposite is true, these days they have a much better chance to live than they ever did under Sibelius.

In fact, with a few exceptions like the Iowa Senate & the White House, it seems that the momentum is swinging away from Planned Parenthood. Too many things have come out showing the ugly truth about how they really operate. Even so, we can't count them out yet. Rather, the direction things are heading should encourage us to double our efforts.

TOPEKA, Kansas, May 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The once-ironclad Kansas abortion industry is being shaken up by more clinic regulations, a pro-life health insurance law, and a budget that would gut Planned Parenthood’s funding, all part of a seismic shift in the state’s abortion politics that followed the November elections.On Thursday, the Kansas state legislature wrapped up the legislative session by passing a budget depriving Planned Parenthood of $334,000 in federal family planning funds. The budget cut was proposed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who on Monday also signed a bill that calls for more oversight of abortion clinic practices, requires ultrasounds, and bans so-called “telemed” abortions.The budget cut, once signed by Brownback, will make Kansas the second state in the nation to deprive Planned Parenthood of public funds based on its involvement in the abortion business.Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri has said it would consider suing the state over the new budget, which CEO Peter Brownlie complained would “undermine women’s health” by defunding the abortion giant.The bill signed on Monday, SB 36, will require that state abortion clinics be inspected at least twice a year, and will hand a wealth of additional oversight powers over abortion clinics to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.SB 36 also requires abortionists to be physically present to dispense the abortion drug RU-486, thereby banning the dangerous “telemed” abortion procedure spearheaded by Planned Parenthood, and ensures the right of women to view their ultrasounds before an abortion.Also passed on Thursday was a bill that bans health insurance packages from incorporating abortion coverage; it allows the coverage in a separate insurance rider, however. Brownlie has also threatened to challenge the health insurance restriction, saying that a possible technicality during passage could bring down the bill.The Kansas legislature has passed five pro-life bills this year - a situation that Kansas-based pro-life leader Troy Newman of Operation Rescue called “night and day” from that under the deeply pro-abortion administration of former Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius, now Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary.“You go from radically sold-out abortion supporters who would cover up abortion, to all of a sudden one that is willing to sign pro-life legislation,” said Newman in a telephone interview with LifeSiteNews.com Tuesday.Newman said that previously not only the administration, but the “entire government apparatus” was radically pro-abortion, including the state health department, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, and the Attorney General’s office. This, he said, made it impossible for years to prosecute abortionists breaking the law, including slain late-term abortionist George Tiller.“I’ve yet to find an abortion mill that doesn’t violate the law,” said Newman, whose organization is dedicated to exposing corrupt practices among abortionists in the United States. He said that if the government actually prosecuted according to the new laws, it “will close two abortion mills right off the bat” in the state.The pro-life leader credited the recent victories to the November elections, when Kansans and the rest of the country took to the polls to vent their anger against the radically liberal policies of the Obama administration, particularly the health care law.“People are waking up and saying, doggone it, now I’ve got to get involved to right the wrong,” said Newman. “Obama has been one of the greatest gifts to the pro-life movement, because he shows the antithesis of what we are as Americans.”Related StoriesKansas Gov. Brownback moves to strip Planned Parenthood fundsKansas abortion rates nosedive

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Sono Italiano-americano. I am a member of St Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church. I am an advisor to Alpha Phi Omega & College Republicans at Loras College. I am a member of the Dubuque Co. Republican Central Committee. I have been involved in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement since 1974. For me the overriding issue of the day is defending the preborn & upholding their right to life. If we don't value life before birth, we devalue it after birth. Life is a gift from God. This is why I am a supporter of the work that Dubuque County Right to Life does in my area. & that is why I am politically active. Our nation's laws need to be changed to protect all from conception to natural death.